Talladega Nights Anchormans US Weekend Box Office

These last few weeks, the US weekend box office has been boring - if sexually ambiguous pirates doing funny runs around Keira Knightley weren't top, then ferociously drab Miami policemen were, and it wasn't half dull.

But now we can rejoice, since top of the weekend box office is Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby, and instead of Johnny Depp dicking around on a boat or Colin Farrell getting off with that Chinese woman, the hero of Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby - and thus the weekend box office - is that bloke from Anchorman being that bloke from Anchorman without a moustache on driving a car around.

If Will Ferrell - or The World's Funniest Man Will Ferrell to use his full title - had chosen his film roles more carefully, then Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby being top of the weekend box office would have been a big deal. But since Will Ferrell started his scattergun, never say no career - highlights including Curious George, The Producers, Bewitched, Kicking And Screaming and that rubbish Woody Allen film - the only surprise is that anyone went to see Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby at all. Here's the US weekend box office top five…

1 - Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (As well as being part of the title of an opportunistic Anchorman remake, Talladega is also a town in Alabama where you can look at a racetrack made of tar or a racetrack made of dust or literally nothing else) $47,000,000

2 - Barnyard (You may think that the last thing the world needs is yet another CG movie about talking animals, but what sets Barnyard apart from the pack is the animation, which looks like it's been done by an drunk toddler with a 12 year old copy of MS Paint and a one-second deadline) $16,040,000

3 - Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Since this is officially the billionth week of Pirates Of The Caribbean being on the weekend box office, we're going to give you one week off from piss-poor jokes about Keira Knightley being quite skinny. One week, mind) $11,011,000

4 - Miami Vice (Some prospective Miami Vice sequel titles for you: Miami Nice, Miami Spice, Miami Mice, Miami Dice, Miami Rice, Miami Fishslice and Miami Electromechanical Device. The invoice is in the post, Michael Mann) $9,683,000

5 - The Descent (The whaaaaa? That's right: The Descent - the dodgy-looking horror film from last year - has gone stateside. And more people wanted to watch a shittily-animated cartoon about a funny pig. That that, UK film industry!) $8,800,000

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[story by Stuart Heritage]